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RUBIO: “Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) statement on the Senate’s failure to advance a student loan bill Tuesday contains a noteworthy detail: The freshman lawmaker and potential running mate for Mitt Romney is still paying back his own student loans. “I think I am one of the only senators here who still has a student loan,” Rubio, 40, said in a statement after the Senate vote. “As someone with a student loan and with a state with so many people with student loans, I support a hundred percent making sure that the interest rates on student loans do not go up,”” The Washington Post writes.
HUCKABEE: "The conventional wisdom about Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential short list, according to a handful of Romney insiders, may be wrong," The National Review notes. "Instead of picking a straitlaced Midwestern senator such as Ohio’s Rob Portman, or an outspoken northeastern Republican governor such as Chris Christie, there is a chance Romney will tap an evangelical from the South. And the name on the lips of Romney friends and supporters isn’t a rising southern senator or a current Dixie governor. He has been out of office for five years, resides on a beach in the Florida panhandle, and hosts a television show. In other words, Mike Huckabee, the bass-guitar-playing former governor."
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Pay your student loan Marco, make it easier for other students to pay theirs.
Can you believe it, 99% Americans! Still paying back his STUDENT LOAN @ 40 YEARS OLD! Doesn't that sound like he & exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH would be GOOD ECONOMIC LEADERS? Their economic strategy is simple, they don't pay their bills or loans ON TIME! Now, let me ask you, would you waste your time even going to the polls to vote for these corrupt Republican corporate MONARCH puppets who have made SLAVES OF US all because of their CAPITALISTIC GREED! They stole our homes, their gasoline price is STILL $2.50 TOO HIGH, they stole our company pensions and gave us 401k, which nothing more than an INSURANCE POLICY FOR THEM, IF THEY FAIL, WE FAIL! Now isn't that just peachy!!
99% American People, vote 100% STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the lives you save WILL be YOURS & your CHILDREN! And if this Democratic Regime doesn't work for us, we'll install a TRUE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT that WILL WORK FOR US!
Actually, Rubio may well have been paying back his student loans on time. It is very possible to be paying back the kind of debt you run up to get that masters or doctorate. I see the effects of this everywhere. I see people putting off marriage and having kids because of the vast debt they run up in schools whose tuition has spiraled way out of control when nothing else really is. At the same time, wages are stagnating. We can also thank republican governors for cutting funding to state schools. This is one, and maybe the only issue that Rubio is right about. We need to keep interest rates down on student loans.
We also need colleges and university to watch the money they spend. One professor friend of mine discusses the "erection problem" that is plaguing many institutions of higher learning. They continue to build large new sports complexes and buildings designed for recreation and socialization. If colleges and universities only built what was needed to fulfill their curriculum it would go a long way to keep expenses down.
Education is what brings us the innovation that Americans are famous for, and the rest of the world beats a path to our door to send their kids to school here. If we don't support education at all levels in this country, we will decline as a nation sooner than we would like to believe.
Finally, if Rubio is really serious about this, he will stop butting heads with the president about how to fund it and just get the job done.
Rubio's positions:
1) Student loan interest bad (aka - Rubio still owes)
2) Imigration bad (aka - Rubio's already a citizen)
3) Debt bad (aka - Rubio uses someone else's credit card)
Seems like Rubio takes some pretty convenient positions...
So why did Rubio stand with the Republicans and filibuster the bill?
He supports it but will pay it back from a different source than the president. Republicans proposed another bill.
from a different source than the president.
The Republicans oppose taking the money from Defense pork, and favor cutting aid to women's healthcare.
Rubio, Governor Romney said you should have taken a loan out from your parents instead of taking out a student loan.
Governor Romney called anyone who takes out student loans part of the problem in America. Romeny called student loans "welfare".
and Rubio represents the hypocrisy of his party to a T
Government that benefits ME is good government. Government that benefits 'them' is BAD government.
All Romney does is sit around, wait for something good to happen then take credit for it. Folks this his how he made his money, by taking credit for things some one else has accomplished. Romney isn't smart enough to accomplish anything on his own, his daddy taught him well how to be a used car salesman, and he has used it well. How can so many Americans keep buying his out right lies?
Rubio isn't backing 100 percent to keeping the interest rates low. If he were, he'd back something other than robbing Peter to pay Paul. He'd back robbing Caesar to pay Paul, so that Paul can get his degree and then work for Caesar (or as Romney would say - exercise his economic freedom to start a business to run Caesar out of town.)
"Romulian Romney" does NOT believe in student loans, because the "Speculator and Chief" does NOT know what they are. In the "Alien Eyes" of the GOP/RNC "Chicken and Chief." Anyone who has student loans is a Socialist, a Marxist, and a card carrying Communist. For "Romulian Romney" all student loans is a classic form of welfare, and all students should pay for their own educations. For the GOP/RNC "Speculator and Chief" his GOP/RNC Masters want all forms of public education expendible. "Sanitarium Santorum" stated in his normal "Mentally Ill" state of mindless behaviors. That public education on all levels is a form of Communistic brain washing, especially at the University levels. Rubio is economically weak in the blood shot eyes of "Romulian Romney."